

Figure 1 1. — The Clay Bank stem reconstructed as both a drinking glass and a candlestick. 

 Height of fragment is 5K inches. About 1 685-1 695. 



denying that it is on a par with the best English glass 

 of its period. London, about 1685-1695. Height 

 of fragment 5' 4 inches. E4. 



FIGURE 12 



1. Spoon, Iatten, tinned, the bowl oval and the 

 handle flat with a trilobecl terminal. The back 

 of the bowl possesses an extremely rudimentary 

 rat-tail that is little more than a solid V slightly 

 off-center at the junction of stem and bowl. The 

 maker's mark inside tin- bowl bears the initials 

 W W flanking a thistle, perhaps suggesting a 

 Scots origin for the spoon. Last quarter of 17th 

 century. E2. 



2. Cutlery handle, bone, roughly round-sectioned 

 at its junction with the iron shoulder but becom- 

 ing triangular towards the top. A4. 



Race knife, steel, a tool used by coopers and joiners 

 to inscribe barrels and the ends of timbers. At 

 one end is a tapering, round-sectioned tang to 

 which a wooden handle was attached; beside this, 

 and probably originally recessed into the wood, 

 is a rectangular-sectioned arm, terminating in 

 a small blade curved over at the end. The arm 

 is hinged at the shoulder of the tool and could be 

 folded back to inscribe large arcs and to be used 

 as an individual cutting instrument. At the other 

 end is a small blunt spike with spiral grooving 

 and raised cordons, and a small fixed knife with 

 a curved blade that could be used to cut in the 

 opposite plain to that of the moveable arm. 

 The arm is stamped with the maker's name ward. 

 Attempts to identify an English toolmaker of that 

 name working in the second half of the 17th 



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